''Expletive Delighted!'' is a 1986 album by

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, their fifteenth studio album since their debut in 1968. It is the band's only album consisting solely of instrumental tracks, despite the claim "Lyric sheet enclosed" on the album cover. Ric Sanders, who had played on some tracks on the previous album '' Gladys' Leap'', was invited to join Fairport full-time, as was Maartin Allcock; the result, according to Dave Pegg, This new lineup would last for the next eleven years, the most stable of all of Fairport's configurations to that point.

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's reviewer described Expletive Delighted! as "alternately enjoyable and maddening", criticising the prominence of Dave Mattacks's drums in the mix, while praising "Portmeirion" and the title track as "delicate and beautiful as any work that this version of the band has done".

Track listing

;Side one # "The Rutland Reel/Sack the Juggler" ( Ric Sanders) - 3:20 # "The Cat on the Mixer/Three Left Feet" ( Maartin Allcock) - 3:37 # "Bankruptured" ( Dave Pegg) - 3:04 # "

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" (Ric Sanders) - 5:21 # "Jams O'Donnell's Jigs" (Dave Pegg) - 2:48 ;Side two # "Expletive Delighted" (Ric Sanders) - 1:55 # "Sigh Beg Sigh Mor" ( O' Carolan) - 7:18 # "Innstuck" (Maartin Allcock) - 2:08 # "The Gas Almost Works" ( John Kirkpatrick) 1:58 # "Hanks for the Memory" (various, arrangement by

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Release history

*1986, August : Woodworm Records WR009, UK LP; WRC004 UK Cassette *1986 : Varrick Records VR029, US LP *1986, December : Sandstock SSM019, Australia LP *1987, August : Entente 12-3074 (833 074-928), Germany, LP (different cover, gatefold sleeve) *1990 :Varrick CD-VR-029, US CD *1990 : Folkprint FP002CD, UK CD, reissue with Gladys' Leap

Personnel

;Fairport Convention * Maartin Allcock - guitars,

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* Dave Mattacks - drums, percussion, keyboards * Simon Nicol - guitars * Dave Pegg - acoustic & bass guitars,

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* Ric Sanders - violin ;Additional musicians on "Hanks for the Memory" *

- guitar * Richard Thompson - guitar ;Technical * Tim Matyear - engineer

References

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{{Authority control 1986 albums Fairport Convention albums Instrumental rock albums